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What is the Best Recruiting Line of All-Time?
What's the best recruiting line you've ever heard? You know. Stuff like "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?" (what Steve Jobs said to John Sculley to get him to join Apple) Quora has a great round-up of these including the following lines:
The Best Strategies for Building a Sourcing Team
Great thread up on Quora on the topic right now. Some of the top replies include:
Why We’re Building Entelo (Part 2): We Want to Help Other Companies Grow
This is the second blog post (read the first "You Are More than Your Resume" here) in a series where I'll be sharing more about why we're building Entelo. We'll be launching soon and we thought it was time to share a little bit more about our motivations. We feel that the world of employment and hiring is changing and many tools of the past are not adequate for the future.
Why We’re Building Entelo (Part 1): You Are More than Your Resume
This is the first blog post in a series where I'll be sharing more about why we're building Entelo. We'll be launching soon and we thought it was time to share a little bit more about our motivations. We feel that the world of employment and hiring is changing and many tools of the past are not adequate for the future.
Should You Use Headhunters to Recruit for Your Company?
It's an age-old question. Should you work with third-party recruiters when you are building your company? We've spoken with hundreds of companies that currently work or have previously worked with recruiters/headhunters so we've learned a lot second-hand from their experience. And a lot of third-party recruiters and recruiting agencies are Entelo customers so we've spoken to them about their strengths and weaknesses and where they feel they best serve their clients.
3 Things That Help You Attract Great Engineers To Your Company
The press is full of stories about how Google or Facebook are throwing huge salaries or incredible perks at potential hires. This is seen mostly among technical positions. As a company that isn't Google or Facebook, what can you do to attract the best and brightest to come work for you? While you certainly have some likely disadvantages including fewer resources and a less well-known brand, there are some things that you can to compete very well in today's hiring environment.
How to Find Engineers for an Early-Stage Company
OK, of course we'd love to have everyone use Entelo to find their engineering hires. Our customers are having a lot of success these days but the challenges of finding engineers when you are an early-stage company can be a bit different. You don't have an established brand yet and there's often a lot of risk, especially if you pre-funding.
Outbound Recruiting 101 (Part 3 of 7): Pick Up the Phone
This is the third post in a seven-part series entitled "Outbound Recruiting 101". It focuses on best practices when reaching out to passive candidates during recruiting. Reaching out to passive candidates is something that almost every fast-growth company does as part of their recruiting efforts. That being said, it can be done respectfully or disrespectfully. We strongly encourage the former. :) Please keep in mind throughout this series of posts that your company's brand is at stake when you are contacting candidates and treat the person you're contacting as you would like to be treated (we call this the Outbound Golden Rule!).
Outbound Recruiting 101 (Part 2 of 7): Multiple Channels for Maximum Effectiveness
This is the second post in a seven-part series entitled "Outbound Recruiting 101". It focuses on best practices when reaching out to passive candidates during recruiting. Reaching out to passive candidates is something that almost every fast-growth company does as part of their recruiting efforts. That being said, it can be done respectfully or disrespectfully. We strongly encourage the former. :) Please keep in mind throughout this series of posts that your company's brand is at stake when you are contacting candidates and treat the person you're contacting as you would like to be treated (we call this the Outbound Golden Rule!).Tip #2: Multiple channels for maximum effectiveness. For the vast majority of candidates you can discover multiple routes to get to them (especially using a tool like Entelo). Perhaps you have an email address or a LinkedIn profile. Or maybe a phone number or even someone in your company knows the person (very easy to discover using the Entelo Company Connections feature!). Here’s a hint: Don’t just reach out to a candidate through one channel.
Outbound Recruiting 101 (Part 1 of 7): Go Custom
This is the first post in a seven-part series entitled "Outbound Recruiting 101". It focuses on best practices when reaching out to passive candidates during recruiting. Reaching out to passive candidates is something that almost every fast-growth company does as part of their recruiting efforts. That being said, it can be done respectfully or disrespectfully. We strongly encourage the former. :) Please keep in mind throughout this series of posts that your company's brand is at stake when you are contacting candidates and treat the person you're contacting as you would like to be treated (we call this the Outbound Golden Rule!).What’s your strategy for proactive recruiting? Are you in the “spray and pray” camp? Spending upwards of an hour crafting that perfect email only to find that it gets no response? Or do you simply not do any outbound contacting of candidates, thinking it too difficult or time-consuming?
New and Improved Search Results on Entelo
The wizards on the team here at Entelo have been polishing our search results based on a lot of customer feedback and we're excited to roll out some new changes today. You'll see some new names popping up and, what we hope, are more relevant results. Search quality is really tough to get right (Google's still far from perfect at it after all these years) but we're doing our best to listen to customer feedback and provide an even better user experience.
Entelo in the Press: Two Recent TechCrunch Posts
After being fairly stealthy for the first ten months or so of our existence, we ended up with two pieces in TechCrunch last week: a TechCrunch TV interview with Semil Shah and an op-ed piece entitled The Rise of Full-Box CRM which, while not being about Entelo, is part of the underlying foundation behind the Entelo thesis.
Highrise + Rapportive: A powerful but dead-simple CRM solution
A couple of weeks ago when I was writing Part One of our Highrise for Recruiting series there was something I was hoping to be able to share but didn't know if I could. Well, I've cleared the appropriate permissions and it's time to write about something that, to the best of my knowledge, has never appeared publicly on the web. It's a really powerful system for CRM that we've been using at Entelo almost since day one and I'd conservatively estimate that it has saved us hundreds of hours of time, perhaps much more. In the following post, I'll step you through what we do in the interest that you too can save a huge amount of time should you choose this path.
John Calipari’s Recruiting Secret, and Why Nobody Will Believe It
It's a sweet week for Kentucky Wildcats fans (or people who became fans when they married Wildcats) as they took home their 8th national championship. And a particularly sweet week for Kentucky coach John Calipari who won his first national championship. What are the secrets to Calipari's success? According to many, he's perhaps the best recruiter of the modern era and therein lies a lesson that companies everywhere should paid heed to.
The Stars Have Come Out on Entelo
Other sites have their stars. BeautyMint has Jessica Simpson. New startup 12Society recently landed ace San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum. We figured that it was time for Entelo to have some stars of our own!